1,000,001 Things I Wish I Had Said First



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Had ex-Kaiser Wilhelm received chiropractic adjustments for whatever abnormal conditions from which he was suffering, the World War would have been averted.

          Charles B. Loftin


Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

          E. B. White


Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.

          Sir Boyle Roche


Have we gone beyond the bounds of reasonable dishonesty?

          CIA memo


Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a--it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

          Dan Quayle on the universal health care plan in Hawaii


. . . hazards are one of the main causes of accidents.

          from the U. S. Occupational Safety and Health
          Administration's booklet "Safety with Beef Cattle," 1976


He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.

          Yogi Berra


He got me by the throat so that I could not speak and I asked him several times to let me go.

          victim testifying during an assault case


He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

          Mary Howitt


He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.

          Yugoslav proverb


He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

          H. H. Munro


He jests at scars, who never felt a wound.

          William Shakespeare


He must think I went to the Massachusetts Constitution of Technology.

          Dizzy Dean


He smiled and let his gaze fall to hers, so that her cheek began to glow. Ecstatically she waited until his mouth slowly neared her own. She knew only one thing: rdoeniadtrgoveniardgoverdgovnrdgog.

          from a story in the Badische Presse


He that can have patience can have what he will.

          Benjamin Franklin


He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

          Confucius


He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

          Leonardo da Vinci


He who has achieved supreme enlightenment is like an arrow flying straight to hell.

          Zen Roshi saying


He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.

          Fortune cookie


He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

          Seneca


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

          Mark Twain


He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

          Menander of Athens


He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

          M. C. Escher


He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

          William Blake


He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

          William Lloyd George


[He's] still green behind the ears.

          Elford Cederberg


Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

          Henry David Thoreau


Hell is other people.

          Jean-Paul Sartre


Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.

          English nursery rhyme


Here lies Captain Ernest Bloomfield. Accidentally shot by his orderly, March 2nd 1879. Well done, good and faithful servant.

          gravestone inscription


Here lies Jan Smith,
Wife of Thomas Smith, Marble Cutter.
This monument was erected by her
husband as a tribute to her memory
and a specimen of his work.

Monuments of this same style are
two hundred and fifty dollars.

          epitaph composed by a marble cutter


Here's to your love, health, and wealth--and time to enjoy each.

          Spanish Proverb


Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

          Graham Greene


Hey, listen. I'm a member of the NRA. You're hurting my feelings, as they say in China.

          George Bush


Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

          Jerry Coleman


[Hijackers should be given] a rapid trial . . . with due process of law at the airport, then hanged.

          Edward Davis


History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

          Abba Eban


History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

          Winston Churchill


Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

          W. C. Fields


How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?

          Charles de Gaulle


How can you think and hit at the same time?

          Yogi Berra


How'm I gonna do decent pictures when all my good writers are in jail? . . . Don't misunderstand me, they all ought to be hung.

          Samuel Goldwyn


Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

          Painted Stick, Skinny Legs and All


Human ingenuity cannot concoct a cypher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

          Edgar Allen Poe


Hundreds of dogs have not paid their taxes.

          Storm Lake (Ia.) Register